12 books found
by Anna Shepard Lutman, Charles Howland Jones, George Plumer Burns, George Richard Burns, Howard Bowman Ellenberger, Joseph Lawrence Hills, Marshall Baxter Cummings, Philip K. Hooker, Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burch Hart Schneider, E. F. Boyce, Erwin Wheat Jenkins, G. F. Anderson
1925
by Andrew William McKay, Anna Shepard Lutman, Frank Abiram Rich, Joseph Lawrence Hills, Marshall Baxter Cummings, Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Erwin Wheat Jenkins, G. F. Anderson, Charles Howland Jones
1922
by Illinois. Supreme Court, Sidney Breese, Charles Gilman, Jonathan Young Scammon, Isaac Newton Phillips, Ebenezer Peck, Samuel Pashley Irwin, Norman Leslie Freeman, Edwin Hill Cooke
1886
by Bert E. Curry, Bethel Stewart Pickett, Charles Brooks, David Lumsden, Frederick W. Taylor, T. R. Arkell, Todd Orin Smith
1911
by Charles Ray Kreidler
1912
In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer, and the most intensely commercialized society in history. The War of 1812 jumpstarted the great New England cotton mills, the iron centers in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and the forges around the Great Lakes. In the decade after the War, the Midwest was opened by entrepreneurs. In this beautifully illustrated book, Morris paints a vivid panorama of a new nation buzzing with the work of creation. He also points out the parallels and differences in the nineteenth century American/British standoff and that between China and America today.